The Panic Mountain
This resource introduces the concept of the ‘panic mountain,’ to help children understand the natural rise and fall of panic symptoms. It explains how anxiety peaks and eventually subsides if the child remains in the situation long enough.
This resource is design to support the delivery of graded exposure treatment.
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The Panic Mountain
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The Panic Mountain
References and Further Reading
- Doerfler , L. A. , Connor , D. F. , Volungis , A. M. , & Toscano , P. F. ( 2007 ). Panic disorder in clinically referred children and adolescents . Child Psychiatry and Human Development , 38 , 57 – 71.
- Last , C. G. , & Strauss , C. C. ( 1989 ). Panic disorder in children and adolescents . Journal of Anxiety Disorders , 3 , 87 – 95.
- Nelles , W. B. , & Barlow , D. H. ( 1988 ). Do children panic? Clinical Psychology Review , 8 , 359 – 372.
- Bracha, H. S. (2004). Freeze, flight, fight, fright, faint: Adaptationist perspectives on the acute stress response spectrum. CNS Spectrums, 9(9), 679–685. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852900001954.
- Steimer, T. (2002). The biology of fear- and anxiety-related behaviors. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 4(3), 231–249. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2002.4.3/tsteimer.
- Keifer, O. P., Jr., Hurt, R. C., Ressler, K. J., & Marvar, P. J. (2015). The physiology of fear: Reconceptualizing the role of the central amygdala in fear learning. Physiology, 30(5), 389–401. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00058.2014.